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Self-conscious sufferers from acne (disfiguring skin disorder) may soon become conscious of Dr. Jon V. Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. Nine out of ten people break out with acne during adolescence or later. Dr. Straumfjord is convinced that he can help most such sufferers, by large doses (100,000 units) of vitamin A every day. In Northwest Medicine he gives the results of his treatment of a sample group of 100 patients. They took the vitamin from three months to a year before they looked any better, but out of the 100 "79 became free, or nearly free, from...
Acne has been blamed on overactive glands, eating too much fat, constipation, heredity, iodized salt, infection, nervousness, allergy, frustrated love life, indigestion, picking. Dr. Straumfjord believes that, no matter what else may be wrong with a patient, acne always develops in a skin coarsened by "follicular hyper-keratosis"-i.e., hardening and coarsening of the tiny skin follicles (pores). This condition of the follicles, says he, "differs in no important way from the descriptions of the follicular lesions attributed to vitamin A deficiency"; in fact, he thinks the two conditions are identical...
Many experienced dermatologists last week read Dr. Straumfjord's claims with an interest tempered with skepticism. Most of them have fought acne with vaccine injections, soaps, yeast, X rays, ultraviolet rays, lectures against picking, antiseptics, astringents, medicated creams, diets, vitamins, hormones, encouragement. They have seen one case yield to X rays, another resist. To them acne is still one of medicine's most baffling mysteries...
...corns on her toes since she was 15. Then she began taking large doses of vitamin A-a 100,000-unit capsule daily at bedtime. In three weeks most of her corns disappeared; in two months they were all gone. This surprising cure was reported by Dr. John Vidalin Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. in Northwest Medicine. Dr. Straumfjord's specialty is studying the importance of vitamin A, which abounds in the livers of Pacific Coast sharks, cod livers, and carrots...
...Straumfjord thinks the cause of corns is more complicated than bad shoes. Vitamin A deficiencies are known sometimes to produce tough or calloused skin. Trouble is that vitamin A, unlike vitamins of the B-group, is not soluble in water and thus is not readily diffused through the body's tissues. The pressure of tight shoes cuts down circulation to irritated areas, deprives them of adequate vitamin A and produces corns-even though the body as a whole may not be A-deficient. Dr. Straumfjord has found that large doses of vitamin A usually get rid of corns even...